Climbing the world`s most dangerous routes<\/p>\n
A Climber`s Odyssey from Llanberis to the Big Walls.
\nWinner of the 1997 Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature, Paul
\nPritchard`s Deep Play is a unique, stylish and timeless commentary reflecting
\nthe pressures and rewards of climbing some of the world`s hardest and most
\nchallenging rock climbs. <\/p>\n
Pritchard started climbing in Lancashire before moving to join the vibrant
\nLlanberis scene of the mid 1980s, at a time when the adventurous development
\nof the Dinorwig slate quarries was in full swing. Many of the new slate routes
\nwere notable for their fierce technical difficulty and sparse protection, and
\nPritchard took a full part in this arcane sub-culture of climbing and at the
\nsame time deployed his skills on the Anglesey sea cliffs to produce a clutch
\nof equally demanding wall climbs. <\/p>\n
Born with an adventurous soul, it was not long before Pritchard and his
\nfriends were planning exotic trips. In 1987, paired with Johnny Dawes,
\nPritchard made an epoch-making visit to Scotland`s Sron Ulladale to free its
\nfamous aid route, The Scoop. Pritchard and Dawes, with no previous high
\naltitude experience, then attempted the Catalan Pillar of Bhagirathi III in
\nthe Garwhal Himalaya in India, a precocious first expedition prematurely
\ncurtailed when Pritchard was hit by stonefall at the foot of the face. In
\n1992, Pritchard and Noel Craine teamed up with the alpinists Sean Smith and
\nSimon Yates to climb a big wall route on the East Face of the Central Tower of
\nPaine, Patagonia. Pritchard followed this with an equally fine first ascent of
\nthe West Face of Mt Asgard on Baffin Island. <\/p>\n
Other trips – to Yosemite, Pakistan and Nepal as well as returns to Patagonia
\n– resulted in a clutch of notable repeats, first ascents and some failures.
\nThe failure list also included two life threatening falls (one on Gogarth, the
\nother on Creag Meaghaidh), which prompted the author into thought-provoking
\npersonal re-assessments, in advance of his later near-terminal accident on The
\nTotem Pole in Tasmania. <\/p>\n
A penetrating view of the adventures and preoccupations of a contemporary
\nplayer, Deep Play stands alone as a unique first-hand account of what many
\nconsider to be the last great era in British climbing.<\/p>\n
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